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Co-creating Effective Learning Environments

I saw a television interview today with a head teacher talking about a new school that he had designed. Then as an aside he said: “… of course I designed it with the architect”. Many might worry about...

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Valuing School Heritage: Lisbon School Given Prestigious Award

The renovated Liceu Passos Manuel in Lisbon, a picture of which has headed this blog for 18 months, has just won a Europa Nostra Award 2013 for European Cultural Heritage. It shows how an old building...

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Quiet please! We’re trying to learn.

If students cannot hear, how can they learn? Why is sound such a difficult issue in schools? Is this an effective way of taking control of a problem that should not exist? Imagine that you are sitting...

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Applying Design to Education

In designing an environment for learning we have to imagine better ways of being. The same could be said for designing education itself. Interior of High Tech High, San Diego, California I once asked a...

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Do you really need that new school building? Try this…

Imagine that you as a school principal or a teacher and have been told that your school going to get a new art / science / math (pick your subject) block. You have to define what is wanted so that the...

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The Key to Effective Learning Environments

The idea that merely redesigning a school building will on its own lead to improved student outcomes and in particular drive education transformation is still being given more credence than it...

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Engage, Enrich, Envision: Creating a Common Language for Learning Space

When working with people from different disciplines, it is perhaps obvious that everyone should be able to grasp the basic concepts and language that the others use. If they cannot, then such...

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School: A Cohesive Agent for the Community

Is the importance of a school as an integral place for the community being neglected? I ask because in these times of frugal spending most of the discussion about schools focuses on ‘education’, yet...

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The Real Shift in School Design

Partial plan of Epping Views, by Gray Puksand Architects 2007. The corridors have been incorporated into the learning spaces. ©Gray Puksand The biggest, and I think the real, shift in school design is...

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How can your school do things better?

There needs to be better evidence for the decisions we make when designing and creating learning environments. Much of what is done, is based on ‘evidence’ that is often not substantiated yet presented...

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Creating the Intuitive Learning Environment

Understanding how people behave as they do is key to creating responsive environments. I was in a school the other day. It was a delight to be in. Its overall aesthetic design wasn’t anything to speak...

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How can teachers move from traditional to innovative learning environments?

  What do we really know about how teachers can use the wonderful innovative learning environments being created for schools around the world? Stonefields School, Auckland, New Zealand Graduate...

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Intelligent Learning Environment

Can we describe what an intelligent modern learning environment should be like? By intelligent, I mean buildings that are designed to support teaching and learning and those who use them. I think that...

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